A reference guide for building applications with Claude, Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence model, through its programming tools. It covers model identifiers, settings, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, caching, token counting, and migrations.

Adding Claude to applications through the official Anthropic software library or direct web requests, with guidance for supported programming languages and features.

It helps developers choose the appropriate integration approach and avoid using unsupported or mismatched provider code.

claude-api — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by lingxling

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add lingxling/awesome-skills-cn --skill claude-api

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lingxling/awesome-skills-cn

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin claude-api — /plugin install claude-api after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 294 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 26,176 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 77% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00294	$0.26176
Opus 5.5	$0.00118	$0.10470
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00059	$0.05235
Haiku 4.5	$0.00029	$0.02618

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d2d78eb15972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-api scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs, shared/evals/report/runner-scaffold.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Raw HTTP** (`curl`, `requests`, `fetch`, `httpx`, etc.) - only when the user explicitly asks for cURL/REST/raw HTTP, the project is a shell/cURL project, or the language has no official SDK.

Origin

This is a copy

77% identical to claude-api — 234 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

anthropics-skills/skills/claude-api/SKILL.md · 606 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 606 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building LLM-Powered Applications with Claude

This skill helps you build LLM-powered applications with Claude. Choose the right surface based on your needs, detect the project language, then read the relevant language-specific documentation.

Before You Start

Scan the target file (or, if no target file, the prompt and project) for non-Anthropic provider markers - import openai, from openai, langchain_openai, OpenAI(, gpt-4, gpt-5, file names like agent-openai.py or *-generic.py, or any explicit instruction to keep the code provider-neutral. If you find any, stop and tell the user that this skill produces Claude/Anthropic SDK code; ask whether they want to switch the file to Claude or want a non-Claude implementation. Do not edit a non-Anthropic file with Anthropic SDK calls. (Exception: the prompt-audit subcommand is non-interactive and does not stop here - it records non-Anthropic provider markers in its report's stated assumptions and never proposes switching a non-Anthropic file to the Anthropic SDK.)

Output Requirement

When the user asks you to add, modify, or implement a Claude feature, your code must call Claude through one of:

The official Anthropic SDK for the project's language (anthropic, @anthropic-ai/sdk, com.anthropic.*, etc.). This is the default whenever a supported SDK exists for the project.
Raw HTTP (curl, requests, fetch, httpx, etc.) - only when the user explicitly asks for cURL/REST/raw HTTP, the project is a shell/cURL project, or the language has no official SDK.

Never mix the two - don't reach for requests/fetch in a Python or TypeScript project just because it feels lighter. Never fall back to OpenAI-compatible shims.

Never guess SDK usage. Function names, class names, namespaces, method signatures, and import paths must come from explicit documentation - either the {lang}/ files in this skill or the official SDK repositories or documentation links listed in shared/live-sources.md. If the binding you need is not explicitly documented in the skill files, WebFetch the relevant SDK repo from shared/live-sources.md before writing code. Do not infer Ruby/Java/Go/PHP/C# APIs from cURL shapes or from another language's SDK.

Read the full file on GitHub · 606 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed · +27 lines d2d78eb15972
2mo ago First seen · 579 lines · 294 tokens per session scan A 1d08b3be1c02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository lingxling/awesome-skills-cn (330 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 294 tokens to every session and 26,176 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 77% identical to claude-api, differing in 234 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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claude-apilingxling/awesome-skills-cn	Skill	330	1mo ago	MIT	A	294	Claude Code, Codex
simpBeamusWayne/simp-skill	Skill	336	23d ago	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
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mm-projectsmworldorg/markdown-memory	Skill	26	19d ago	MIT	A	112	Claude Code, Codex
mmmworldorg/markdown-memory	Skill	26	19d ago	MIT	A	103	Claude Code, Codex
algorithmic-artPrat011/awesome-llm-skills	Skill	1.8k	3mo ago	none	A	62	Claude Code, Codex
resemble-detectPrat011/awesome-llm-skills	Skill	1.8k	3mo ago	none	A	45	Claude Code, Codex

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